COMPETING in a Sentence

Learn COMPETING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
92 example sentences for COMPETING, such as:
1. I am alive, you see, and competent.
2. He's not competent to look after young children.
3. He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
4. A year of college had made her more socially competent.
5. A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPETING
competing
 v.  compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  But for a woman to leave the protection of her home and venture out into the rough world of men, competing with them in business, rubbing shoulders with them, being exposed to insult and gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  She felt herself once more the alert and competent moulder of emergencies, and the remembrance of her power over Selden flushed her with sudden confidence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  The Ford Garage and the Buick Garage, competent one-story brick and cement buildings opposite each other.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Bea was competent; there was no household labor except sewing and darning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bed-making.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
7  Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
8  I am alive, you see, and competent.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
9  A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power, against whose approaches Munro possessed no competent means of resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
10  After this incident, and as he reviewed the battle pictures he had seen, he felt quite competent to return home and make the hearts of the people glow with stories of war.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
12  Mr. Drummle," said I, "you are not competent to give advice on that subject.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIII
13  With your branch of the subject, on which alone you are competent to speak, I should not think of interfering.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
14  She was very good and competent, and she soon knew how to have him in her power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Give me the child of any healthy, normally intelligent man, and I will make a perfectly competent Chatterley of him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  Western suppliers too are competing avidly for business abroad.
2  The Olympic Games begin with a parade of all the competing nations.
3  It will be difficult to steer a middle course between the competing claims of the two sides in the conflict.
4  His dream of competing in the Olympics remained unfulfilled.
5  They found themselves competing with foreign companies for a share of the market.
6  She was disqualified from competing for a year after failing a dope test.
7  Politicians vie with one another, competing for donations and votes.
8  Indian manufacturers complain of being overwhelmed by cheap Chinese goods and want to find ways of competing.
9  Companies would have to pay for access to the “fast lane”—potentially preventing startups from competing with extant tech behemoths.
10  A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
11  He's not competent to look after young children.
12  We assume that competent doctors emerge at the end of an obstacle course of traditional examinations based on facts.
13  He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
14  He was a loyal, distinguished and very competent civil servant.
15  A year of college had made her more socially competent.